Test 11 · ★ · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29…
Did the Prince get bored of chatting with the Master-maid?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: do, get, chat
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1442 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29: the Prince learns tricks from the Master-maid and tames the fire horse» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | ccomp |
| 5 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 chatting | mark |
| 7 | chatting | chat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bored | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 maid | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maid | det |
| 10 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 maid | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Master | punct |
| 12 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chatting | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | the Prince | bored property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | chat speech: other | gerund | the Prince not said here | with the Master maid | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with maid=Co-Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1
no, he nearly forgot the bridle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 forgot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgot | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 forgot | nsubj |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 forgot | advmod |
| 5 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bridle | det |
| 7 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgot | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | he | the bridle | nearly property | tree rules |
Option 2
no, he did not
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
no, he nearly forgot the horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 forgot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgot | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 forgot | nsubj |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 forgot | advmod |
| 5 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgot | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | he | the horse | nearly property | tree rules |
Option 4
yes, very
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 very | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1442-pg503-part29/t11/